Real decisions in virtual worlds: Team collaboration and decision making in 3D virtual worlds

ICIS 2010 Proceedings - Thirty First International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Schouten, Alexander P ^a   van den Hooff, B ^a   Feldberg, Frans ^a  

^a VU University   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

3D Virtual Environments; Computer Mediated Communication; Media Synchronicity Theory; Shared Understanding; Team Performance; Virtual Teams; Virtual Worlds

Indexed keywords

3-D VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; SHARED UNDERSTANDING; SYNCHRONICITY THEORY; TEAM PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL TEAM; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84870972650     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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